yes, it’s true ! you work your butt off and when you get your pay slip you discover that someone else has "latched on" to your pay check !
and i don’t mean your spouse !
the Israeli government seems to think that all the citizens are it’s slaves and therefore they act like an employment agency, in a way.
anyone who’s ever worked for an employment agency, especially before the law was changed several years ago, knows what I mean.
you pay income tax and health insurance (which doesn’t give you any health insurance – you still need to pay kaput cholim) and national insurance (bituach leumi = social security).
it makes you wonder when this adds up to quite a substantial sum, sometimes reaching over 50% of the gross pay and benefits !
Moshe Egel-Tal, CSPP
Founder and CEO, Israpay "making payroll simple"
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